Wondering whether you can enter the United States green card (diversity visa) lottery this year? The U.S. Department of State (DOS) just published the instructions, which includes this year’s list of eligible and non-eligible countries. As you may know, the visa lottery is open only to natives of countries whose citizens are the least represented when it comes to U.S. immigration, so the list changes annually.

For DV-2014, here’s the list of countries whose natives are not eligible to register:

If you don’t see your country’s name on the list, and you meet the other eligibility requirements (described at “Winning a Green Card Through the Visa Lottery“), you are free to submit a registration, which you can do between noon on October 2, 2012, and noon on Saturday, November 3, 2012. (These are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4).) Last year’s country list included Guatemala, but not this year’s!

About Ilona Bray

The blog is written by Ilona Bray, a Nolo editor and the author of Becoming a U.S. Citizen. Her working background includes both solo immigration practice and working or volunteering as an immigration attorney with nonprofit organizations in Seattle and California.

Among Ilona’s most memorable volunteer experiences were passing out HIV+ literature in Guatemala, researching U.N programs as a legal intern for Amnesty International in London, and representing (pro bono) disabled, low-income people seeking Social Security benefits in Washington, DC.